Add to the organiser’s walls. Do not nail them

Last updated 31 October 2026.

Shell-scheme searches want a package: walls, fascia, carpet, two lights, a table. Organisers sell that package. Overseas stand builders sell an “upgrade” with their own artworks. We do not publish either price. The booth page already says shell scheme means the walls may exist and the work is a graphic, a counter and a shelf, while raw space means you build the walls inside the manual. This note is only the upgrade path, so a shell exhibitor does not accidentally buy a raw-space stand.

Read the manual headings on the checklist before you design the upgrade. The usual limits are: no nails or screws in the shell panels, a fascia name in the organiser’s type, a height you may not exceed with a tower, and power on their form. We will not screw a timber frame into a shell panel because the graphic looks better that way. If the manual allows a clamp or a hook they specify, we use that. If it allows nothing, the upgrade is furniture that stands on the floor and graphics that the rules allow to be removed.

A counter we build for that floor space is quote on inspection. It is not a reception desk from an office lobby and not a home kitchen. A small table that is a carton is S$50 to S$80 only when it is small. A printed panel you supply can be mounted if the fixing is allowed. We do not publish a print price per square metre. Fabric curtains are not a shell upgrade.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. is not a professional engineer, not an architect, and not a Qualified Person. BCA’s page on works that do not need plan approval says a Qualified Person is an architect registered with the Board of Architects, or a professional engineer registered with the Professional Engineers Board, holding a valid practising certificate. We do not sign a structural calculation and we do not decide that a frame is exempt. If the work is building work, the owner asks that person. We quote the metal after the answer is clear, or we stop. A tower, a bridge or a ceiling inside a shell is usually no longer an upgrade. It is a submission. SCDF says Qualified Persons submit fire-safety plans when the work needs them. We do not sign. If you need raw space, say so before deposit day with the organiser. We cannot turn a shell into raw space by building over their walls.

Suntec floor plans do not say whether your stand is shell or raw. The contract with the organiser does. Singapore Expo and Sands are the same: the manual, not a blog. The reuse note matters if you hoped to bring last year’s custom wall into a shell you must not fix to. Often you cannot. Do not truck it until you know.

Electrical extras are the organiser’s order form. A socket on a domestic circuit at S$55 is an HDB or home sentence. It is not how a hall sells a 13-amp socket. Do not mix them. Lighting they include in the shell stays theirs. A lamp you add is allowed only if the manual says you may add it.

HDB’s renovation page is a flat, not a hall. A fine of up to $5,000 is HDB’s sentence when a renovation breaches those rules. It is not an exhibition overtime fee, and we do not publish one. The fine is not a shell-reinstatement deposit. Ask the organiser what “make good” means before you stick anything. We will not quote a deposit we do not hold.

Walk the shell on the first morning before the graphic is printed at full size. The panel width on a brochure is often a nominal bay. The bay you were given may be short a clamp, or the neighbour’s fascia may overhang the line. A graphic cut to a brochure will not be recut for free by a printer we do not control. Measure the panels you can touch. If a nameboard is already printed by the organiser, design under it, not over it. A counter that is deeper than the aisle they left you is the wrong counter even if the rendering looked generous.

Homey Furnishing Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 202018148K), 27 Mandai Estate, #06-10 Innovation Place, Singapore 729931, invoices permit-exempt furniture assembly and repair. V On Construction Pte. Ltd. (ACRA UEN 201611708H), on the HDB Directory of Renovation Contractors, invoices an HDB renovation permit when the work is a new layout, hacking, or a built-in strip-out. Homey Furnishing is not a removal company and does not publish a truck rate.

Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not part of this booking. Fabric window treatments are a different product, and these pages do not quote them.

Look at the piece in the room. Do not drag a tall wardrobe across a wet floor to test it.

1. Confirm the stand is shell, not raw.
2. Find the sentence on nails and fascia.
3. Design additions that can leave with you.
4. Order power on their form.
5. Quote the counter. Do not ask for a package price.

The building changes the permission and the disposal path. It does not invent a second price.

The fascia name is usually the organiser’s. A logo that replaces their type may be forbidden. Ask before we make a sign that will be refused at the door. Carpet they include is theirs. Carpet you want instead is their heading on the checklist, not a rate we print.

Two spotlights in the package are not a lighting design. If you need more, the manual says who hangs them. We do not publish a lux level and we do not rig a truss the manual gives to someone else.

How you're charged

A furniture job that already has a sentence on HomeySG uses that sentence. Nothing in this table is a fuel surcharge, and the handyman hour is not added on top of a band unless the written scope says so. IKEA publishes its own checkout fee. That percentage is not a HomeySG band.

Who is allowed to do the work

The permit guide on this site already splits hardware from a renovation. A cabinet hinge, a gas strut and a drawer runner do not need an HDB renovation permit when the layout stays. A new kitchen or bathroom layout, hacking, or removing a wall does. Fines for unauthorised work are already written there as up to S$5,000. Homey Furnishing does not sign the permit invoice.

• Flat-pack assembly uses the furniture assembly catalogue. Tall units are wall-anchored on that visit. A separate anti-tip price is not printed, except the child-gate and anti-tip bundle at S$180 to S$420 when that bundle is the job.
• A built-in that has to come off the wall can become a strip-out. That is V On Construction if the flat is HDB and the work needs a permit. A loose shelf inside a carcass is not a strip-out.
• Town councils collect some bulky loose items on their own rules. We are not the collector, and we do not publish their fee.
• A new cable inside a wardrobe is an electrician. Assembly does not include a new circuit.
• Do not anchor into a household shelter wall. The permit guide already keeps TV brackets and shelves off that wall.
• A hollow partition or a false ceiling is a poor anchor for a tall wardrobe. If the fixing cannot reach structure, the visit stops.
• Active termites are not painted over. Skirting and door-frame replacement after damage uses the termite page bands. We do not claim to be the pest-control operator.
• Curtains, blinds and roller shades are not quoted here.

Ways to keep the bill smaller

• Photograph every piece before a carpenter is booked. A hinge visit is not a new kitchen.
• Put the flat-pack in the room where it will stand. Carrying a built wardrobe down an HDB corridor is a second job.
• If the drawer only sticks, use the published slide row. A new carcass is the cabinet page, and only when the board is swollen.
• Book the town council bulky slot before you pay anyone to truck a loose sofa. Many councils collect a limited number of loose items. Built-ins are usually excluded.
• Ask whether the walls must be returned bare. A graphic that cannot come off is a reinstatement argument.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630.

No shell package. The pieces you add are quote on inspection unless they are a small carton.

Anything not in that table is quote on inspection.

WhatsApp the photos to +65 8561 0630. The reply uses a band already printed on HomeySG, or it says quote on inspection.

• Booth build
• Manual checklist
• Venue rules
• Reusing a booth
• Metal fabrication
• Handyman price list